Your Majesty suffered his share of physical ailments during his racing career, which perhaps kept him from earning even higher acclaim as a racehorse, but as it was he was quite good. A Classic winner in the race course, he went on to become an important sire and broodmare sire in Argentina

Race record

Complete record unavailable

1907:

Won Boscawen Stakes (ENG, Newmarket)

2nd Prince of Wales's Stakes (ENG, Goodwood)

1908:

Won St. James's Palace Stakes (ENG, 8FT, Ascot)

Won Eclipse Stakes (ENG, 10FT, Sandown)

Won St. Leger Stakes (ENG, 14f+132yT, Doncaster)

1909:

3rd Princess of Wales's Stakes (ENG, 12FT, Newmarket)

As an individual

A big, rugged bay horse who combined good bone with good quality, Your Majesty had short cannons and was slightly over at the knee. He was said to have possessed an exceptional walk.

As a stallion

Your Majesty was the Argentine champion sire list of 1920 and 1926 and was second in 1918 and 1925. He led the Argentine broodmare sire list in 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1940; he was second in 1927, 1932 and 1943 and third in 1934, 1936 and 1944.

Your Majesty was bred and owned by Jack B. Joel, who reportedly refused an offer of £35,000 for the colt at the end of Your Majesty's four-year-old season. Your Majesty stood the 1910 and 1911 seasons in England before being sold for £22,500 to Luis Castello, who stood Your Majesty at his Haras Punta Lara. Your Majesty later moved to Haras Ojo de Agua, where he died in 1934.

Your Majesty was produced from Yours, an Italian-bred daughter of 1885 Derby Stakes winner Melton who was initially purchased for 750 guineas from the 1897 Tattersalls December Sales by Woolf Joel, brother of Jack Joel. Jack Joel inherited the mare after Woolf Joel was murdered in South Africa. Yours is out of Your Grace, by 1883 Two Thousand Guineas winner Galliard out of Grand Duchess (by Lozenge).

Fun facts

Your Majesty was the leading money earner among English-raced horses of 1908.